Clothes-wringer



(MOdeL) H. O. HOPKINS.

CLOTHES WRINGER.

No. 361,179. Patented Oct. 19,1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

HENRY C. HOPKINS, OF GOVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,179, dated October 19, 1.886,

Application filed November 20, 1885. Serial No. 183,445. (ModcL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRYC. HOPKINS, a resident of Govington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, have invented cer- 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- \Vringers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of clothes-wringers which employs a U -spring to hold the rolls in contact, and is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my invention applied to a wringer. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same, showing the rolls spread apart, and not showing the nut and bolt of the clampbars E. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the shelf or apron, with a modification of the spreading-lugs. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective illustrating the manner of connecting the shelf and its supports to the springs.

Arepresents the upper roll, B the lower roll, of a clothes-wringer.

O 0' represent the end plates. The lower end is preferably slotted to allow the plates 0 O to slide over the axis D of the lower roll.

E E represent the clamp-bars.

F represents a shelf or apron, which is pivoted to supports 1, which are mounted upon the cross-bar G, which connects the two sides of the wringer-frame together. This shelf or apron serves asa support for the clothes which are being fed into the vwringer. V

3 3 represent pivots of the shelf, which journal in the supports 1. These supports are shown as connected by a slot to the cross-bar G; but any desired form of pivoting the shelf F might be employed. The cross-bar G and U-springs 2 are connected by nuts 4, which screw upon the threaded ends of the clampbars E.

- I I represent lugs attached to the outer edge at the ends of shelf F. The distance between these lugs and pivots 3 is greater than the distance which the arms of the U spring are apart. Consequently when the shelf is turned up in the position shown in Fig. 2 the ends of the springs are separated and thespringpressure removed from the roll-journals, the springs being retained in that position by the shelf and lugs. Various ways may be employed of constructing the lugs to spread or separate the ends of the springs. The preferred form is to make the shelf F of wood and have metal end plates, 5, secured thereto, which carry the lugs, as shown.

The modification shown in Fig. 3 of the end pieces, 5, of the shelf Fconsists in casting the end pieces, 5, lugs I, and pivots 3 integral with the end pieces, 5, the latter being afterward secured to the ends of the shelf by any suitable means.

I claim- 1. In combination with a clothes-wringer having springs 2, which press the rolls together, end plates pivoted upon the support 1 of the wringer, between the ends of the springs, and provided withlugs which engage with and raise the upper members of said springs as the arms are swung upward, said arms having a rigid connection capable of serving as a support for the clothes as they are fed to the rolls, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a clothes-wringer having the U springs for compressing the rolls, the shelf F, pivoted to said springs, and provided with lugs I I, for spreading the same, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY C. HOPKINS.

Witnesses:

J NO. S. RoEBUoK, J12, M. E. MILLIKAN. 

